FAISALABAD: Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry Friday said that a deep-rooted politically motivated conspiracy had been hatched against the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) to deprive it of vote bank.

Addressing a news conference here at Circuit House, he said that some political parties had sensed that they could not win next general elections due to the excellent performance of the PML-N government.

He said in 2013, the country was heading towards a complete bankruptcy as terrorism had tarnished its image while load-shedding had crippled the national economy. The PML-N government, however, under the dynamic leadership of Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, put the country on road to progress and eliminated terrorism with the support of armed forces.

He said electricity loadshedding, which was a regular phenomenon in 2013, had had now been reduced as people were getting uninterrupted power supply for over 22 hours.

He said the PML-N had sacrificed its political interests to safeguard the national integrity and sovereignty.

Talal Chaudhry said the sit-in held in 2014 was aimed at hoodwinking the voters of PML-N through vicious propaganda. The main objective of that sit-in was to malign the PML-N by creating a hype of alleged rigging in 2013 election, he added.

He said in the recent NA-120 Lahore by-election, candidates belonging to religious parties were also put in the filed only to divide the vote bank of PML-N.

Regarding the election reform bill, he said its draft was dully approved by all political parties which was later endorsed by the parliament.

He said myopic politicians had inflicted a colossal loss to the national economy just to materialize their wishful thinking to remove the PML-N from the political scene. The PML-N was a popular party, which would emerge victorious in the next general elections, he said.